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title: In silence they glided along, and thought themselves already safe, w… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In silence they glided along, and thought themselves already safe, when a furious monster dashed itself by accident against Rosalie and the Invisible Prince, and in her fright she let go his hand. Who acts: gardens, furious monster, Rosalie. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The 
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 50

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In silence they glided along, and thought themselves already safe, when a furious monster dashed itself by accident against Rosalie and the Invisible Prince, and in her fright she let go his hand.

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**Who acts:** gardens, furious monster, Rosalie · **What happens:** glide, think, dash, let, go, fright · **To what, where:** silence, gardens, fright, hand

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gardens, furious monster, Rosalie), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg640:17:50
# text = In silence they glided along, and thought themselves already safe, when a furious monster dashed itself by accident against Rosalie and the Invisible Prince, and in her fright she let go his hand.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	glided	glide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	along	along	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obj	_	_
10	already	already	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	furious	furious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	dashed	dash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
18	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	17	obj	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	accident	accident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	against	against	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Rosalie	Rosalie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Invisible	Invisible	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	fright	fright	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
32	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
34	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glide** | past | gardens *= garden* |  |  | silence |  | along *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in silence=Trajectory |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | gardens *= garden* *not said here* | gardens *= garden* |  |  |  | safe *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot themselves=Theme |
| 3 | **dash** | past | a furious monster | silence |  |  |  | by accident against Rosalie and the Invisible Prince | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent itself=Theme by accident=Trajectory |
| 4 | **let** | past | Rosalie |  |  | Rosalie's fright |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** | infinitive | Rosalie *not said here* | Prince's hand |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme |
| 6 | **fright** |  | Rosalie |  |  |  |  |  | nom fright «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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